I also teach writing on various short courses. I am represented by Jane Finigan from Lutyens & Rubinstein. Baker, Emily and Me, won the 2014 BBC Opening Lines competition ( read it here), and my story, A Quiet Tidy Man, won the Royal Academy and Pin Drop short story award 2016, ( Listen to Juliet Stevenson reading it), and it has been included in the Pin Drop / Simon & Schuster anthology: A Short Affair. My short stories have been published in many literary journals and shortlisted in prizes. They have been translated into more than twenty languages. My five novels: The Memory of Animals, which will be published in the UK in April 2023, and the US and Canada in June 2023 Unsettled Ground (which won the Costa Novel Award 2021, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction) the critically acclaimed Bitter Orange (longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award) Swimming Lessons (shortlisted for the Encore Prize for second novels, and Livre de Poche Prize in France) and Our Endless Numbered Days (winner of the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize for debut fiction). I live near Winchester, England with my husband and a cat called Alan, and I have two grown-up children. I have a Masters (distinction) in Creative and Critical Writing from The University of Winchester.

I began writing fiction at the age of 40, after many years working as a co-director of a marketing agency. For my first degree I studied sculpture at Winchester School of Art.

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